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Call for Testing: Gutenberg 4.9

This release includes a lot of tweaks, bug fixes and performance improvements. It includes a new Async Rendering Mode for blocks so it’s important to test it with custom blocks.

The goal of Gutenberg is to simplify the creation of rich pages and posts in WordPress by replacing old custom HTML, CSS, and shortcodes with native Blocks. The Gutenberg plugin is currently the main focus for the testing group and Gutenberg is the new editing experience in WordPress.

Quickly typing a new word into a previously published 10,000-word text-only post worked without lag.

I tested with Yoast SEO 9.5 and Advanced Custom Fields 5.7.10 and Jetpack 6.9 all active and did some basic tests such as setting categories and adding a meta description with Yoast, adding a custom field group with ACF, and social sharing buttons on posts with Jetpack and did not find any blockers.

Checking “Pending Review” in the document settings sidebar did not change the “Publish” date from “Immediately” to a specific date—which is the expected behavior.

Uploading an image with a EXIF title field saved the title in the Media Library but the title is not used when the image is inserted into a post—I am not sure of the expected behavior for the 2nd part and will check on that.

Adding stripes to a table block worked as expected.

Opened the Gutenberg demo post using Edge 18 on Win10 and there was only one scrollbar. Scrolling to the end of the block library and then scrolling the post worked normally.

Alignments of left, center, right, wide, and full width worked as expected for the cover and category blocks.